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  2. Margaret Walker - Wikipedia

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    Margaret Walker's evocative poetry has inspired new musical compositions by 20th and 21st-century composers. Inspired works include Randy Klein's 2011 For My People — The Margaret Walker Song Cycle, a song cycle for choir (formerly entitled Lineage), [23] [24] and Edward W. Hardy's 2022 BORN FREE, a song cycle for soprano, violin and piano. [25]

  3. Barbara G. Walker - Wikipedia

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    Barbara G. Walker (born July 2, 1930, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American author and feminist.She is a knitting expert and the author of over ten encyclopedic knitting references, despite "not taking to it at all" when she first learned in college.

  4. Ellinor Walker - Wikipedia

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    Ellinor Gertrude Walker OBE (9 April 1893 – 7 November 1990) was an Australian kindergarten teacher and women's rights activist. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She wrote plays and poems and is credited with drafting The Guardianship of Infants Act passed in 1940 in South Australia.

  5. William Ernest Henley - Wikipedia

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    Though he wrote several books of poetry, Henley is remembered most often for his 1875 poem "Invictus". A fixture in London literary circles, the one-legged Henley was an inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson 's character Long John Silver ( Treasure Island , 1883), [ 1 ] while his young daughter Margaret Henley inspired J. M. Barrie 's choice ...

  6. Joaquin Miller - Wikipedia

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    Contemporaries believed that Miller's "Indian wife" was the woman later kidnapped by Modocs and held in captivity for some years until rescued by a man named Jim Brock (whom she married), but when "Amanda Brock" died in 1909, Miller denied news reports describing his supposed romance with her. He credited her with saving his life, but said she ...

  7. The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien - Wikipedia

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    The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien is a 2024 book of poetry of the English philologist, poet, and author J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Tolkien scholars, wife and husband Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond. Its three volumes contain some 900 versions of 195 poems, among them around 70 previously unpublished.

  8. Los Angeles Dodgers Pitcher Walker Buehler and Wife ... - AOL

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    Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Walker Buehler and his wife, McKenzie Marcinek, have been going strong since they were teenagers. The couple first met in kindergarten but didn’t start talking to ...

  9. Pattinathar - Wikipedia

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    Pattinathar (Thiruvengadar) realized the philosophy and wisdom of the words, and renounced everything – his wife, his wealth, his kith and kin and all other mundane attachments. With only a loin cloth he left. [5] He sang many philosophical songs to enlighten people on the blissful state of renunciation. [6]